From Cory Doctorow article in the UK Guardian Reports of blogging’s death have been greatly exaggerated Blogging is not on the way out – it’s just that other social media have taken over many of its functions A report last month in the Economist tells us that “blogging is dying” as more and more bloggersRead… Read more »
Yesterday’s Loudoun Economic Development Commission, Membership and Business Retention Committee (MBRC) meeting officially earned Loudoun, its residents and businesses their “Gov 2.0 street cred” on the Internet. An official Department of Economic Development (DED) strategy, roles and supporting cast are in place, the SEO and website analytics are turned on, the chicklets are published, aRead… Read more »
I’m currently at a conference on Social Media for Government. Curtis “Bob” Burns from TSA is speaking on “How to engage the public with an agency blog.” The TSA Blog was launched in 2008; so far there are 250 posts, with over 2 million visitors and over 30,000 published comments. It is a successful exampleRead… Read more »
Tagxedo is one of the free web tools I use rather frequently. I’ve employed it to create a portrait of compliments for a much beloved team member who was heading back to her homeland after her visa expired, to create front pieces to briefing materials that present the crux of the materials in a snap,Read… Read more »
In the first of what could become and ongoing discussion series I join Leila Sadeghi, Ph.D., to discuss a recent Harris Interactive poll. Leila Sadeghi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor with the Center for Executive Leadership in Government at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This first post has been interesting, a joint writingRead… Read more »
Attending the Next Generation in Government Summit last week highlighted that government 1) is full of young, driven and innovative employees; and 2) needs to make sure that it harnesses that passionate creativity and allows it to STAY AND GROW IN GOVERNMENT! I discussed this challenge in my column in the Washington Post this morning.Read… Read more »
In the last posting for my featured Govloop series and Phase One Consulting Group’s “Transformation in the Federal Sector” blog, otherwise known as “jennovation”, I highlighted the major motivations for public-private partnerships. In the discussion resulting from that posting, it was clear that there was some confusion about what forms public-private partnerships can take. AreRead… Read more »
Can any one provider ever really claim title as The World’s Online Mall? If anyone can, Japan can. Japan’s largest online shopping mall is making a bid to become the leading global online shopping mall. With 7 million+ registered members in Japan, Rakuten already has a beach head in the US (they own buy.com withRead… Read more »
Unsatisfactory Reports I was a U S govt ‘war worker’ at the Air Force logistics depot on Hickam Field/AFB, Hawaii during and, for a few more years, after WW2. When hostilities ended I was reassigned from aircrew parachute and emergency survival gear maintenance to the depot Maintenance Division’s staff office that investigated, documented and processedRead… Read more »
The Social Customer has been discussed in great detail across countless blogs and web sites. In my opinion, no one has done a better job of providing a more complete definition than that provided by Jacob Morgan’s Chess Media Group, with Attensity, at the end of June, 2010. With Jacob’s permission I am including hisRead… Read more »